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Child's depiction of Hobomok, and Native Americans in general, is progressive only to the extent of the early 19th century context. [15] The story of an interracial marriage between a supposedly devoted Puritan and a Native American was truly novel at the time, even to a degree that Child felt the need to publish it anonymously under a pretense ...
Kidili, Mandjindja moon deity who was castrated for attempting to rape the first women, who in turn became the Pleiades; Kurdaitcha (or kurdaitcha man) is a ritual "executioner" in Australian Indigenous Australian culture (specifically the term comes from the Arrernte people). [3]
Cottage. The setting of the story is a cottage in Augusta, GA, before the Civil War.The two main characters, Rosalie, a "quadroon", and her husband Edward, a "Georgian," are living together in "a marriage sanctioned by Heaven, though unrecognized on earth" [5] Rosalie, as a partly African-American woman, cannot legally marry a White man, but they live together as if they are man and wife, and ...
Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times is a story of an upper-class white woman who marries an Indian chief, has a child, then leaves him- with the child- for another man. This novel, originally published in 1824, is a powerful first among anti-patriarchal and anti-racist novels in American literature.
The landmark 1967 referendum called by Prime Minister Harold Holt allowed the Commonwealth to make laws with respect to Aboriginal people by modifying section 51(xxvi) of the Constitution, and for Aboriginal people to be included when the country does a count to determine electoral representation by repealing section 127. The referendum passed ...
Zitkala-Ša with her violin in 1898. Zitkala-Ša was born on February 22, 1876, on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota.She was raised by her mother, Ellen Simmons, whose Dakota name was Thaté Iyóhiwiŋ (Every Wind or Reaches for the Wind).
Seven Little Australians is a classic Australian children's literature novel by Ethel Turner, published in 1894.Set mainly in Sydney in the 1880s, it relates the adventures of the seven mischievous Woolcot children, their stern army father Captain Woolcot, and faithful young stepmother Esther.
Indigenous Australian literature is the fiction, plays, poems, essays and other works authored by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia. While a letter written by Bennelong to Governor Arthur Phillip in 1796 is the first known work written in English by an Aboriginal person, David Unaipon was the first Aboriginal author to ...